my colleague, brianna keeler is in the nation's capital monitoring developments. we want to paint a picture for you of what things look like here and what they are about to look like over the next few hours as this powerful storm gets closer and closer to landfall. in this park outside of tampa bay we've seen a lot lot of extensive damage from hurricane helene, leftover from about two weeks ago. you see it on his peer right here. >> you're looking eastward towards tampa bay and there are planks of wood strewn about there is scrap metal and different era. >> and what are the most concerning things about this hurricane aside from the powerful winds that are headed his way somewhere in the vicinity of 125 140 miles an hour is the storm surge. and we're seeing an ominous sign of what is to come right now. the water is receding in tampa bay. that means that the wind is pushing it out as we get later and later into the evening, this water will return and we are expecting a storm surge anywhere from eight to 12 feet. here in tampa bay. if you look old we're in a distance

following breaking news here on cnn, i'm boris sanchez live near tampa bay alongside my co-anchor, brianna keeler in the nation's capital and hurricane milton is inching closer and closer to sata, to west florida, gulf coast of florida right now, you're attempt they were watching low tide it's start to set in the water began to recede. >> and that water is coming back with a dangerous storm surge anticipated between up to eight to 15 feet along the gulf coast, 15 feet in sarasota would prove devastating. here in tampa bay. >> as you can see behind me, it is coming down the water fuel previously, we are starting to get to the point of maximum rainfall. >> and this will be sustained throughout the evening hours into tomorrow hurricane milton is proving to be an unprecedented storm yesterday, strengthening to a category five. and as it gets closer to florida, though it does begin to change and expand those wind speeds have started to slowly come down. >> that doesn't mean that the danger is any less because the storm surge, it is packing is historic. we want to go live to release the rapper whose in

milton is set to make landfall not far from here in just a few hours have driven by my colleague, brianna keeler's live for us at the nation's capitol hurricane milton is it precedent and storm? >> we saw this thing go from a tropical storm to a category five hurricane just about a day right now, which stands at eight category four, and it is promising 40 plus called an hour winds for this region, as well as a deadly, deadly storm surge. i want to show you what he started to happen in tampa bay right now. the water has started to recede. these are easterly wave that is dragging water out typically the water line is much closer but through this spot right here the seawall in front of me, this recession is something you typically see was storms at some point, this will come flying back as a potential 15 foot storm surge in some parts it's estimated to be somewhere between eight to 12 feet here in tampa bay. and that is what has officials very, very concerned this may be a category four storm, a very powerful one, but the storm surge is a category five and it is set to shatter records set by hurric

following all of these major you're stories and many more all coming in here to cnn news central i'm brianna keeler with alex marquardt thanks for being in for boris today and we are beginning of course with breaking news nearly 2000 pages of documents that former president trump fought to keep secret have just been made public, which just 18 days until the election special counsel jack smith, releasing this huge trove of documents that are nearly entirely blacked out, almost entirely redacted. they're part of the prosecutors election subversion case, the january 6 case against former president donald trump. prosecutors have charged trump with four crimes stemming from his actions following his 2020 election loss. including conspiracy to defraud the united states, as well as obstruction trump, of course, has pled not guilty. cnn's evan perez is here with us now, so evan, you and your team are still going through these 2000 documents. what can you tell us about what you've seen so far? >> well, a lot of them a lot of these documents, we can't see just yet eventually, we presume if this if we have a

go back to brianna keeler, who is live for us in washington, dc. brianna aid is such a difficult position to be in for folks that are here in part because they just survived hurricane helene they obviously treasurer their homes and their belongings and it's difficult to leave them behind. but when you're faced with a situation like this, where the alternative is death and you're hearing officials say things like, if you're going to stay behind, you have to write your name and your date of birth on your arm so you're corpse can be identified. it's important to weigh that and make the decision as soon as possible, brianna yeah, that is a dire warning and let's hope that people heed it or us ahead this hour on cnn news central vice president harris going after former president trump's false claims about famous hurricane response. >> hear what she just said about trump in a brand-new interview. and legendary watergate journalist bob woodward describing candid behind the scenes conversations from the white house and mar-a-lago including criticism, presid

central much for joining us on the brochure boris sanchez alongside alex marquardt, who's in for brianna keeler the eyes of the country on texas today as both campaigns make a rare visit to the non battleground state, they are focusing on very different issues. vice president kamala harris highlighted reproductive rights at a houston rally tonight. she's going to be joined on stage by some music superstars beyond say, and willie nelson as well. >> in the meantime, for president donald trump is an awesome it's in texas focusing there on immigration and border security. he's gonna be sitting down as well for an interview with the very popular podcaster, joe rogan. and with just 11 days until this election on november 5, cnn's brand new national poll shows a deadlocked race. can see it right there, 47 to 47 for both candidates coming from likely voters. we have a team of correspondents covering today's race for the white house. steve contorno is with the trump campaign in texas, but let's begin with mj lee and vice president harris's trip to texas. so mj what can you tell us about about harris goi